In this breakout standalone novel of suspense in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, a female agrees to greatly help an old sweetheart who has been framed for murder-but begins to suspect that she is the main one being manipulated.

To check out Alafair Burke’s latest heart-racing novel of emotional suspense, The Wife, coming in January 2018.

Two decades ago she ruined his life. Now she’s the opportunity to save it.

Widower Jack port Harris has resisted the dating scene about The Ex lover: A Novel since the taking pictures of his wife Molly with a fifteen-year-old youngster three years ago. An early morning run along the Hudson River adjustments that whenever he spots a female in last night’s party gown, barefoot, experiencing a champagne picnic by itself, reading his favorite novel. Everything about her reminds him of what he used to possess with Molly. Wanting to help Jack port find love again, his closest friend posts a message on a favorite internet site after he mentions the encounter. Times afterwards, that same beautiful stranger responds and invites Jack to meet up her personally in the waterfront. That’s when Jack’s globe falls apart.

Olivia Randall is certainly one of NY City’s best legal defense lawyers. When she hears that her former fiancé, Jack Harris, has been arrested for a triple homicide-and that one of the victims was connected to his wife’s murder-there is normally without doubt in her brain concerning his innocence. The just question is who would head to such great measures to frame him-and why?

For Olivia, representing Jack port is a way to make up for past regrets, to absolve herself of guilt from a tragic decision, a secret she has held for twenty years. But as the data against him mounts, she actually is forced to confront her doubts. The man she knew could not have done this. But what if she never really knew him?